Decoding Artifacts is a project that explores the ways in which technologies and interactive
media enhance the museum visitor’s learning experience with art. The digital components
of the project include a website and a mobile application, both hosting historical
content, educational videos, images, 3D models, and an augmented reality experience.
These virtual tools offer information to the viewer beyond the museum label, and aim
to create a multi-sensory learning environment through an interactive dialogue between
the public and the work of art. The thesis paper discusses how and why art museums
are adapting to modern technological trends and the affordances of digital tools in
museum education and outreach. The Decoding Artifacts project will use the example
of medieval sculpture and the process of stone carving as case studies which discuss
and demonstrate the effectiveness of virtual technologies in museum experiences.

Pissini, Jessica Marie (2015). Decoding Artifacts for the Museum Viewer: Case Study of a Virtue from the Cathedral
of Notre Dame in the Nasher Museum of Art. Master's thesis, Duke University. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/10161/11410.